Competitive Intelligence

As Fletcher/CSI continues to celebrate its 30th year in operation, we pause to reflect on how the past thirty years have changed the practice of CI. This month my thoughts are about the larger CI cycles and where in the cycle we are…

Looking back over our thirty-year history, I am reminded of a key question that crops up whenever I talk to companies starting a CI unit. The question most frequently asked is about how to staff the unit and more specifically, what…

Our 30-year anniversary coincided with the administration and analysis of our 5th Annual Effective CI Survey. We originally launched the survey five years ago to identify CI best practices and understand how they directly link to more…

As we continue our 30-year celebration, I am reminded of how much cross-pollination there is between Competitive Intelligence skill sets and other analytical tools. Recently, that cross-pollination was highlighted in an application…

As Fletcher/CSI reflects on the past 30 years of advising the world's leading companies, it is interesting to analyze how the Fortune 500 list has changed since our founding in 1988. Today, we focus on providing competitive…

Over the past thirty years that Fletcher/CSI has been in operation, we have formed some opinions about when a company should outsource some parts of its CI operation. One of our guiding principles is that the best use of the CI team…

Fletcher/CSI entered the world of Competitive Intelligence in 1988, a total of thirty years ago. Thirty years is a milestone for any business, and we want to start the year by sharing some perspective on how CI has evolved since 1988.…

Events, dear boy, events!” - Harold Macmillan (UK Prime Minister 1957-1963) Whether Macmillan ever uttered these famous words in response to a question about what makes governments change actions is open to conjecture, but he gets…

The adoption of competitive intelligence (CI) programs and practices is notably lower in Europe than the United States due to contrasting economic, cultural, political, and legal factors. One way to encourage the implementation of an…

While at the recent Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals event in 2015, I was surprised by a growing gap in the field. All around the exhibit hall, in the presentations and in networking discussions, there were deep…

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